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Where the Bird Sings Best
Where the Bird Sings Best | Alejandro Jodorowsky
The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature. There has never been an artist like the polymathic Chilean director, author, and mystic Alejandro Jodorowsky. For eight decades, he has blazed new trails across a dazzling variety of creative fields. While his psychedelic, visionary films have been celebrated by the likes of John Lennon, Marina Abramovic, and Kanye West, his novels—praised throughout Latin America in the same breath as those of Gabriel García Márquez—have remained largely unknown in the English-speaking world. Until now. Where the Bird Sings Best tells the fantastic story of the Jodorowskys’ emigration from Ukraine to Chile amidst the political and cultural upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries. Like One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jodorowsky’s book transforms family history into heroic legend: incestuous beekeepers hide their crime with a living cloak of bees, a czar fakes his own death to live as a hermit amongst the animals, a devout grandfather confides only in the ghost of a wise rabbi, a transgender ballerina with a voracious sexual appetite holds a would-be saint in thrall. Kaleidoscopic, exhilarating, and erotic, Where the Bird Sings Best expands the classic immigration story to mythic proportions. Praise “This epic family saga, reminiscent of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude in structure and breadth, reads at a breakneck pace. Though ostensibly a novelization of the author's own family history, it is a raucous carnival of the surreal, mystical, and grotesque.” —Publishers Weekly "A man whose life has been defined by cosmic ambitions." —The New York Times Magazine "A great eccentric original....A legendary man of many trades.” —Roger Ebert For more information on Alejandro Jodorowsky, please visit www.restlessbooks.com/alejandro-jodorowsky
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Ye_Mighty_Andy_Spare
Where the Bird Sings Best | Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Mehso-so

Sigh. I wanted to love this, I really, really did. Magical realism sprawling family history tale that brought back echoes of One Hundred Years of Solitude. But like an echo, it doesn't have the power of the original. Maybe it's because I've put One Hundred Years on such a high pedestal #five #countingbooks

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Ye_Mighty_Andy_Spare
Where the Bird Sings Best | Alejandro Jodorowsky
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zugchop
Where the Bird Sings Best | Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Finally nearing the end of a long string of life-altering events that may not even be for the better... Finally getting back to the books I started a long time ago... Maybe I can find some solace in these pages. 😬

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zugchop
Where the Bird Sings Best | Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Difficult day. Family time can be trying, but you either try making the most with what you're given or be overwhelmed by it. Camouflaged against the chair, I sit and read alone. Maybe someday.

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jgarrigan
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Definitely a bit odd for the sake of being odd at points, but Jodorowsky's story of sex, family, and magical realism sucks you in.

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